Chapter 63 Taking turns to watch

A thin man in ragged clothes looked at the villagers of Liuhe Village and whispered, "Tie Er, it seems that the people in this village have enough food! We are out of food now, how about we buy some from them?"

Tie Er pursed his cracked lips after hearing this and said, "Buy? Will they be willing? Besides, most of us can't afford the money now!"

Skinny: "What should we do? Now everyone is complaining about us, saying that we were the first to leave the village team."

Tie Er: "Bah, I take the lead? They volunteered to do that. When the head of the village and I disagreed, they automatically stood by and took sides."

Xu Zhiyi glanced at the thirty-odd refugees and saw that they were staring at the villagers, and he felt a little worried.

After everyone finished their meal, it was getting dark. Xu Zhiyi thought about it and decided to find the village head to remind everyone about safety at night.

Shen Wuyou spread the oilcloth on the ground, raised his head and saw Xu Zhiyi seemed to be going somewhere, so he quickly asked: “Madam, where are you going?”

Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi paused and said, "I'm going to talk to the village head uncle about something. You go to sleep first!"

After saying that, without waiting for Shen Wuyou's reply, he raised his foot and walked towards the direction of the camp.

For safety reasons, Hu was tying the grain and the cart together to prevent anyone from stealing the grain, unless the grain was pushed away with the cart as well, which would make a lot of noise and she could discover it in time.

Just as he finished, he looked up and saw Xu Zhiyi walking over. He asked curiously, "Hey, Zhiyi, why are you here? Is there something you want to talk to your uncle, the head of the village?"

Xu Zhiyi heard this, looked around, didn't see the head of the village, nodded and said: "Well, aunt, I want to ask the head of the village for advice, we should send one person from each family, divided into three shifts to take turns to guard the night. Now we have to guard against the refugees we saw today, I'm afraid something will happen"

"Is it so serious? I think they are very well behaved today! They haven't approached our team. Those refugees are ordinary people. How dare they do what the bandits do?"

After listening to Xu Zhiyi's words, Hu thought to himself that they were all ordinary people, so could they really rob people like bandits?

Xu Zhiyi: "Aunt Hu, people's minds are hard to predict, especially now that they are forced into a desperate situation. In order to survive, what are you afraid of?"

Mrs. Hu: "Yes, it is always good to be on guard. Your uncle, the head of the village, is going to each household to remind them to be more careful at night and not to sleep so deeply."

Xu Zhiyi nodded after hearing this. Since she had been reminded, she felt relieved! Now that everyone was fleeing in the same team, if something happened to them, it would not be good for her.

Just as he was about to go back, he met the village head.

Village head: "Do you know?"

Xu Zhiyi: "Uncle Lizheng, oh, I came to you to give you some advice. I was thinking about whether we should have one person from each family come out and divide into three teams to take turns to keep watch at night."

The head of the village's eyes lit up when he heard this. What he had just thought of was to remind every household to be careful at night. Now that he heard Xu Zhiyi's idea, it seemed feasible.

"Zhiyi, your method is good. I will gather them to form a team now."

After seeing this, Xu Zhiyi returned to his camp with peace of mind.

When Su saw Xu Zhiyi coming back, she looked at her in confusion: "Zhiyi, what did you talk to the head of the village about?"

"Mom, I just went to give a suggestion to the village head uncle, asking each household in our village to form a team of one person to take turns to guard the night."

After hearing this, Shen Wuyou, who was standing by, stood up and decided directly: "Where is the village head uncle? I will go over now to gather and wait for the team to form."

Just as he finished speaking, the head of the village called on every household to gather one person over.

Xu Zhiyi stopped Shen Wuyou who was about to go over: "Wuyou, you go back to sleep, I'll go"

Shen Wuyou heard this and looked at Xu Zhiyi angrily: "My wife, I am a man, how can I go back to sleep and let my wife keep watch at night?"

Su: "I understand! Wuyou is right!"

Shen Changan, who was standing aside, looked down at his legs, wishing he could stand up immediately so that he could take on the responsibility of protecting his family.

Xu Zhiyi looked at the angry Shen Wuyou and explained: "I'm worried that you won't be able to sleep well at night. You're the main force in pushing the cart during the day, and I'm worried that you can't hold on."

When Shen Wuyou heard Xu Zhiyi’s words, he immediately patted his chest and said, “My wife, I can do it. I’m not that weak. You have to believe me. If you don’t believe me, feel it. I also have muscles…”

As he said this, he grabbed Xu Zhiyi's hand and put it against his chest.

"Ahem... I trust you... I trust you, okay? It's just a one-night stand, how could you have gone off topic?" Xu Zhiyi's cheeks felt hot and he quickly pulled his hand back.

When Shen Wuyou saw that Xu Zhiyi agreed to let him go, he immediately smiled and happily ran to the gathering!

At this time, the first and third branches of the Xu family started arguing about who would keep watch.

Li: "My boss can't go. He has to carry so many things during the day, he must get enough rest."

Hearing this, Song was also very unconvinced and retorted: "Brother is working hard, but my husband is not working hard? His shoulders have been bent these past two days, right?"

Old man Xu, who was standing by, saw that the other villagers had gathered, but his own family was still quarreling. He immediately felt ashamed and quickly scolded them, "Stop quarreling. You two brothers, each guard half. Now the eldest brother, go and gather first."

Xu Lei didn't know what to say after hearing this. He had to go and see what the head of the village had arranged first.

Li and Song rolled their eyes at each other, pouted and turned their heads away.

Finally, the head of the village divided the fifty people into three teams, two teams of seventeen people, and one team of sixteen people. Each team guarded the three positions: the head, the middle, and the tail. Five or six people guarded one position, and each team guarded for one and a half hours.

Shen Wuyou, who came back after guarding for an hour and a half, looked at the three people who were sleeping, quickly lay down quietly, closed his eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

At this time, it was the turn of the last shift, and the five-member team included: Xu Le, Li Mazi, Gu Yun, Chen Jun, and Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked at the listless Li Mazi and reminded him, "Li Mazi, cheer up!"

"Why are we keeping watch all night? We're already dying from traveling during the day! Now we can't even sleep well at night, how can we stay energetic?" Li Mazi yawned and kept complaining.

Xu Le on the side also echoed: "That's right, I think your father is just suspicious. The two teams ahead of us have been guarding for a total of three hours, and nothing happened?"

Chen Jun nodded: "Yes! What's more, we are now the last class, and it will be dawn in two hours!"

Lin Yu listened to the complaints and laxity of the three people, and couldn't help but frown: "This is the mission of our team. No matter what, you have to guard it for an hour and a half."

Gu Yun watched the four people from the side. Although he didn't say anything, he still believed that Li Mazi and the other two were right. It was hard enough for him to escape the famine during the day!